Eco-Green Sustainable Landscapes
When Kermit the Frog crooned the tune “It’s not easy being green,” he wasn’t singing about environmental issues. We who are in the green industry, however, might want to rewrite that song, with appropriate lyrics about the challenge of exchanging some of our traditional practices for greener ones.
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Business Articles
In a conversation I recently had with one of my clients, he expressed
his concern about finding employees who he could hire for 12-16 weeks.
Due to the nature of his business, it is typically very busy in the
first three months of the season, then begins to decline.
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One of my green industry clients recently made the move to invoicing their customers electronically. One thing he and his staff learned immediately was that some of their Baby Boomer customers did not want to receive their invoices via email. They wanted to receive them in hard copy form through the United States Post Office mail.
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Landscaping has long been a part of my life. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I started my Detroit-area landscape company when I was 19. In the process of learning the business, managing my own crew, and dealing with the unexpected challenges of being a first-time business owner, I’ve made plenty of mistakes.
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My partner Chip and I had just landed a large installation project for a new restaurant chain that was building several locations throughout our city, Nashville, Tennessee. However, at that time, our company consisted of only two men, just Chip and I.
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Times have changed and advertising in the green industry has changed along with it. In the past, trying to get the biggest ad in the Yellow Pages or changing your name to AAA something was the way to go, so that you could get listed first in your category.
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...the good and the bad

Business Articles
Incentives—rewards meant to encourage and motivate employees to be more productive—all too often backfire and create unintended consequences: internal squabbles, cynicism, distraction, and diminished performance. However, when used correctly, they can produce wonderful results.
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Close-Up Profiles
When Roy Mullet moved
his family to Hesston,
Kansas, in 1958, his thought
was to live in an area with
warmer winters than the cold
climate of Montana. In order to
support his family, he took a job
with Hesston Industries. Hesston
was a metal fabricator making
cabs for agricultural combines
and tractors; small metal fabricators
were common throughout
the Midwest.
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STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES
(SOPs) are the lifeblood of any successful
company and should be developed for
every process in your business. You
should have procedures for everything
from hiring new employees to equipment
maintenance, to how to properly
install pavers.
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Close-Up Profiles
Even from the other side of the world, I knew that America was the land of opportunity for everyone. This was what Carlos Chavarria said to me when I asked him what made him come to the United States.
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